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This article highlights some of the key aspects to consider when setting up a mentoring scheme and Action for Young Carers, a project within the Nottingham-based Carers’ Federation, explain how they took longer than anticipated to set up their scheme but felt it was time well spent to ensure that safe systems and clear policies were in place.

MBF Regional Co-ordinator for the East Midlands, Val Barritt outlines the benefits for organisations of working towards the Approved Provider Standard (APS) and the importance of planning, training and measuring effectiveness.

And Michael and Daniel, a mentor and mentee, share in their own words how their mentoring relationship has developed.

The feature ‘Youth mentors: what works?’ appeared in Children and Young People Now magazine, 11-17 June 2008, p22-23.

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